Attitudes and Practice Regarding Disposal for Unwanted Medications among Young Adults and Elderly People in China from an Ecopharmacovigilance Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15460293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xiaotan Yu (0000-0002-4029-810X, Wuhan University of Science and Technology), Xianmin Hu (0000-0003-1258-3859, Wuhan University of Science and Technology), Shulan Li (Wuhan University of Science and Technology), Mengya Zhang (0000-0002-1055-3528, Wuhan University of Science and Technology), Jun Wang (0000-0003-4485-7201, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1463-1463 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-25 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601 |
| Publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3390/ijerph16081463 |
| PMID | 31027160 |
| OpenAlex | W2940463837 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 27 |
Due to the expensive cost and uncertain effectiveness of environmental management options in eliminating pharmaceutical residues, recently, decreasing the emission of pharmaceutical pollutants from a drug administration perspective has been considered a hot area of research. As a kind of drug administration for the environment, ecopharmacovigilance (EPV) emphasizes the source control of pharmaceutical pollutants. Disposal of unwanted medicines has been considered as the easiest target for source control of pharmaceutical contamination. Here, we focused on public attitudes and practice regarding disposal of unwanted medicines from the EPV perspective among 365 Chinese university young adults and 206 elderly retirement home residents. The results showed that the majority of respondents had positive attitudes, but exhibited inadequate awareness and poor practice. In addition, the young-adult respondents were found to pay more attention to the environmental problems posed by pharmaceutical residues, and be more supportive of the EPV intervention predominantly performed by pharmaceutical industries and pharmacists. Therefore, it is urgent to establish the standard medicine disposal protocols and educate the general public on the best way for medication disposal under the principle of EPV in China, and efforts on environmentally-preferred drug disposal under EPV should target for the specific demographics
Business · China · Demographics · Environmental health · Intervention (counseling · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Public health · Sociology · Demography · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |